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THE WlklvLY LEDGER': GAFFNEY, S. C., APRIL 9, 1390. FROM OLD ROCKY. The I'an with Cno “G-r-llua” Hr.c the Floor. Tiio r.Tctio “fraop on Iv.irtJi” Oau^oa u Chnrt h I Ion' A I. u :o:ti Widow In tho Eottlcmont—Di'iu on .Joiner's L'n- snccessful Love Salt. Tlu ro is nothin Hhe religion in this green and wicked old world v.e live in. constant, got his hair dyed black and brown ia spots, yon 1 a sn ail flower. J garden on bis manly chest,' dispensed' \>itli jicetry to anybody lU^.t wo\ild rite.i. and cut the.pigeon win:'around il ” box >.,i widder to..beat cicatieii. Anybody and eicrybcxly "could' sec ‘ h one eve shot that the widder AKP TALKS POLITICS. Believes in Lotting tho People Sc*, loot Senators. W! wouldn't TV— give four dozen for In Fact lie Docs Not Think Much n! a Senate, Anyhow — Tho Ohl Idea anti tho New—Tho Com ing Campaign. and nothin bet-, tor unless i t. maybe mought be a little more of it. And when I say that I don't mean thin rainy day, long-face ted, Sundny-go- x to meetin rcli- iran fash- * V 1 which will stand by and stay with a man every day and every hour, and t'c a prop and a pillow and a comfort through all hia trials and rt niggles and temptatlonK, and rind triumphs and troubles and tribula- t ions. ags£yv * 1 ; i •"^»V ..'h'bx'-V 'v VV\ . V A '^ V V* gion. I nicor & v plain, old-fash . % \ - V Lrcl'glon.tbm bft 3 n •.»• n .(oincr. No doubts hut v. hat she had her line out, you und n'ornh and bit well baited, but Act still she want flshin for .'ceoiid-Ii.ukI •<I.coi. any to freak oMhis s»pi iiiiL if you' Irtivcn'l livetl long enough to hnd it out. I have loiig'h eimgli'to . i! vou .thut tb 1 d .o’.itf'o i.csf e • p fy'., ’ • and most goi chyi st biggeyt fool that ever left bis foutij.i iiiiv on :the broml bosom of ike..earth is i.ne of tliese, old fools when be tal.os up a foal no.tiou t hat he must go and git married. And provised a song with a chorus of 1'a that was Deacon Joiner to a net's hr; —all around and all over. 'He didn' These times remind me very much of the times when 1 sold goods nearly .'m ) ears ago, when cotton Avas six to sevefi •cuts a pound and bacon about the same ■s cotton; chickens were 1 ~' cent; . 7 -ggs five ceie s a dozefi'afid sweet pot a tocs 23 cents a bushel; sugar and coiY were f- pounds to thedollar. We ealle tliose few years hard times, and the .negroes felt the pressure, too, and im- “Fcnce en IXrHi." It nlnt for me to r«y for certain whether they have got any religion to speak of down at old Flat Kock church, put frm , g -urral ap'-carmentsitAvould inley emu to me as if they must have a mars'.row strange and sorry and po- curious article of it. . a. week ago they and had the most braee. up like a man and ask thy widder : f.he mought call in possinund then let nature take her com se. . Tlic deacon he had the spring disease. He ]iad a Sean* dlous had ease of it. lie bad it so ba(l liil he could mighty nigh taste it. lint, he didn’t ha\c the neeemiry grit in his craw to go on and take the mgdiutne - kill ot cure. N'qw., in the niaiu.,fh;m ;h«' general facts in the case had leaked^>ut ]iro- miseus in Hie settlement ,whya Dim Scroggins and Andy Lucas wej.t a li.sb- !n for Deacon Joiner, and the dsaequ be bit mere, free aiUl (piicker than am •pcekhd trout ever gobblitl a blue-tail fly-. I.nrt Sunday v.t put in, they did. ser.rdid;;:ious rhiiieh rumpus (low there t!;nt lias ever eotne to pass in all this shirt of the woods. It. looks like they hr. - ? b.r.d two wings to thatehure: ior the longrsl—the T tnlin wing and the Skinr.er w ing. Tiie Tomlins the\ wart, d to do the fioppln, and likewi. also tho fikinrers. It wns pull Die! pull devil, v. hoshould and whoshoukln't as he v.ren the 1 v.o wings, and eonc- (inentiy it wns mighty scarce and sel dom that they would flop together peaceful and unanimous in the kindred ties ef (hurch fellowship, ns It were, lor 1 • o years pnot every time I had wentdown into the Flat Kock neighbor hood seems to me like I could see a thin skim*-of rmoke on the nir and smell soinetiiin butr.in a: from afar off. Du h.rt f)unda,y the fire broke out and busl loose right , and Flat Dock church went to pieces in the general smaohup and confusic.r.Tuent. N"ow you mought not believe it if ] didn't tell you so, hut the one lilti; thing which brung on that tvemendim church mens was a motto with words—‘'Peace on llarth.’* The w< folks had went to work and got u t I’lorious big Sunday s'ehool celebration The church was trimmed up rich and promisrun from floor to inftors ',Av.ii h flowers that bloom in the spring. Xliin. sir, there was flowers all around and fiowcTR everywhere, and that dear old meetin home wns a delightful sygV to see. Put in 1 he general fixments you could abet one eye find see where ih" two wings of the church—the Toml.u w ing and the Skinner wing—had tried their level blamdest to see which could flop tho hardest and fly the highest. Presently a covey of girls all dressed in white came in bearin the big banner, with the words—"Ponce on Knrth." Sister Tomlin riz up and said they would hang the banner on thelefthar.d wall. But Sister Skinner lowed they would do nothin of the sort-—they would bang it up on the right hand wall. Well, sir, from that, the two wings got to floppin fast and furious—one on the right side and one on the left. Tlmy got madder and madder and hotter and hotter, till finally at last the whole shoot!n match went into rough and tumble fight to settle the question as to which was which and who was whm Of course it was a plum scandalatioa on the country for miles around, and I wouldn't tell it. if I didn't know the news would leak out. srnjewhcres els.-, but bless gracious in the general scrap and scramble they pulled and snatched and ripped and tore till they made doll rags and strings out of that gloriou-, banner, with the motto and the words — “Peace on Earth.” The Deacon Taken the null. . Fo. in them days its nine to’pa; -—or. a Faturday and hit - along in tho shr.iik of the evon'n—thiit Kiev ;.i. Andy and the deacon nil met up together oh tin- , ond from town. The wea ther hit was "jest simply amphibious,” us Andy-tc Ls it. with the'flow .'3 hloumih’aml-t-iie bilbs siugin and the sun shir.in and the U'ts hum mi u. "i.'f I was playin your hand, deacon,*' ; Kiev as they i i ! on together, "by - 'r.Iiit:3 1 w ould ] lay it to A-. in, .or 1 would throw dow m the gavels and quo the game. Why don't you/piit ftddlit: ‘ and foolin and fhitferjn around tdie edges and go op and marry the widder, jml let the agony bhiw over?” "Them’s my sentiiner.'ts. d Times Come Again No More.” Du gradually there came on a change for life better and prices of everything ad vnneed just as cotton advanced. Thn w hy cotton was called king. It set im 1 d • regulate everything. And so \ 1 thought that these hard times woul ! soon pass-, hot they show no sig:: Nearly everything has come down t hard times prices and the consume could live cheap enough if they con! get anything to do. There is the rub. The Irishman who came over h complained that chickens were two s' lings apiece and said he could get <• over in Ireland for a sixpence. “W why didn't you stay over there,and h; them?” said the market man. “Fa; ;.ml hegorra, I couldn’t get the sb ; enee,” he replied. Tint is the co nmer.s’ fix now. The necessaries < ■ life are cheap enough. The farmers;; producers complain that they are t i 'nap. They want some kind . f tariff that will i; ike everything tb ihey have to buy as cheap as d .. c. iiikse tiio price of v.!;at they have .ell. An IrDLiu m heard a Du: butcher say that, the way to m; m iiiey "vas to uv she< p (eh.cap) a : ell deer (dear).' Iledidn'tuiKleis'.i how tluit. eouh he doi.e, iml askid laeotehman, a\1u rumii ated onu - it.a ;;:;id it war. to buy mut Lai and m 11 i. ! venison. Dut we can’t do that. (' young men w ho are every year v . ing to the front are ready and wil fo work, but they Can't get work L>< No wonder that they leave their I hb'd go west or to .Mexico and Jharv I. aj iu* riin,iin!iting about nvlvlsh-.g >■ deacon,” put in the great horse trader. If a. horse can run and won't nip, sairpi.-. body ought to pull his shoetiQliiind tai l} of theni to-go to eentrnl America : hi: i out forci'mv balL” . i* *i•' viL a i Stt • CQiT«*. There-must be ir.on< ; "Well, now, boys,” fays the dotMofty* thatM-usiness. For years and i- "you all know' aiid every body .know- s-old coffee at 12 pounds to the b i i t 1 a.m more thin .wulliijf’t'ii proceed . : >ud.J ^lpn!t qmlariitand wliy it sib: wit IT the proceeding if 'l could on 1^11 todeajble the old price ar.il for years ’ , far certain when, to euire in,, Jh-.t./lau 1 .umlniued it. I y as readii g . 1 l-.'.me it, the widder is SAxxrvGila.stlf;' 'f.hcfsinhd of Jamaica and found t ii'gli-headed aiitl v .11 is it-—s'Me puns Gp TM veai's the product ave:ay , e;l 23,o .•ae bits so constant anti so’hard,' till, bv, graeiou's, I don't Juinwr w here to throifgh or hovv to start. ■oundshi ydab, but When in i i. m£ni!gjrp:tt.cft her slavi s there I!: J nht. that stilHioids its own. ''' I wlslFthfit I was a great slat 'inid eduldbsee through all tl’.ist;:' •up hiiKiccsis like the X lays pen i. iTqctjpq, di'opjx'd, in ten years’ i:’.. bTknow-vvhatis *--Wkw pounds.. In lac', ever; L beacon,” f;tys. IUe\,; '-'“'olaijivd if you bro;)ped away down except rum, a ajit skeered”,. . -, • -.rj-j- ' “N’o, 1 suit sljeered,” sayk.thfe deaeoiy. “I have, seen more-wonsoiv than dfif it- dry day and generation, bdy's; and fhb rustl'n of a bunch of (kd’ipo, v. ifih. .;-j,.tf l wrka>;d hidden things ami l.i'ii "■ t few silks and satins t^irowoil in fopg'nuL' to light. I reinember when the gi eat : r:ea.sure., .don’t yar'my lh|ii(J r i) bles.sM ‘‘ rfe: °Aal question before the ju-ojile bit.” .- y bother' the government should n “Well, if you aint skeorc-d,--! can tclf' ^tti ihirtl iliipboivements or not. you where to break' in and h'o.iV to V^ko-, ’-''jligs sai.d i.t should and the dcniocr. liolt." sayiiDlyv. “(;jim\i into your ben S' r-Pt aipi the- democrats carrie ' i Funday r'ggilis to-;.,drvt>w and go.up ^ thonextelection the parties ehai • there and catch < h-e.wi.dder auU.hold.lj.er ant i a sj'stem of interna) imp. oy and kiss., her.. lAon’-t go to foolin and n»r»cboily Ilad to Snffor. Whenever two white men by the name of Andy Lucas and Kiev Scrog gins shake hands and lock arms am! put their heads together to “make the time pass pleasant,” as they are wont to say, somethin Is more than probable to drnp, and somebody will have to Buffer. Consequentially Deacon Joiner i. now "off of his fret” and ‘‘(lead on his legs” and laid up for repairs. Blevand Andy they throwed out a trot line for the deacon. They baited the hook with love and moonshine and foolishnee and the deacon he bit like a jintura!- l>orn sucker. Tlien the boys tlicy cut the strings and let that poor old ir.r.n lk>nt off, hopeless and helplees, down the snaggy fork of Salt river. Year before hint o buxom, fine-loo!,in widder by the name of Misses Logan moved into the settlement from sonie- wheres down in the stump hills. You maybe mought not think it jest to loot at her, but the widder has got five boys at her house and they are all grown in a milliner. Dut she don’t even sorter half way look it. She is as handsome ns n right young girl, and spry and net ions ns a eat. She powders and primps and drosses dean out of sight, whilst the ribbons and the laces, the silks and the satins jest naturally whistle as she walks along the big road. Fifteen years ago the hand of sor row and iifilietion wns laid rough and heavy on the Joiner place, and the deacon he was left a sod and lonely v. '.dower in this wicked and weary old i\ orld here below. After that the deacon never did recover until about the time when the Widder Logan moved her wasl.in into the settlement. Huthence- forwards from that time the deacon put 5n his best Sunday clothes reglar and fmnblin around till you. lose your nerve ' '••ut. sail right in and nail her on the spot.” ' '. " / V ' “Then you can tell her that you didn't have vour right mind—that Vou ha'd sich a monstrous had ease .till yonT^iIc. didn't Ijrow wliat \ o’u was tioin,”.!^;. Andy by waj' of pjiraecr. “Don't you do. nothin of the .ipr:. Deacon,” says Dlev. "You tcll'her.t hat you jest naturally loved her so hard. :r.d so fervent, and so reekl^w; till by pa thus you couldn't beli) it-i”' "DadlMirned if 1 don’t do it'.’j’say.". the i eacon, which by this time tk.e l>oy: ! ad Avorked luin up to the s’tiekin pin!. “Sink or swing hit or ink s, right- o; wrong, survive or surrender, 1 will . and kiss’the widcld r.” Tiio Storm ttrohe Loose. Cn t’.ieir retmn back home from town that night Dlev and Andy come by oiir house to let n..- know tiiat the “old hen was cn, with full sett in ofer end every egg ful of devilment," i.n ! was irgiF-e titan, probable to come oh t be next day. So. consequent In My, it want noway, survirisin to -me v hen Deacon Joii't r rid by the next u. on::), drrkftrd in a; neh of his life ah/ ;waded for the Wid der Logan’s. The'dyacon ,hu,d e-n b.i "Jonble-aetjon Wiuchefitor” .ycat. a Aunt N'anty Xcwleu would ee.Jl it,';;:’; cinnamon drops o:, liis hnir tiH b!nh. .-d if ou eculdn't smell bim eomin'ifu,' : 'I yards.'' • Deacon Joiner he rid ch up there t* tiie Logan place. lie hKchrd dug muj ;.t the horse rack, lie went bifstltn into the house. He saw the widder. be caught her. He belt her. Uekissed.. neiitbegah. Appropriations were nr ' for rivers and harbors and eusi hoiises'and 1 post offices, and this poi has been established and gets wi tud Irigger rts tin* years roll on. Ti again, there was the great qius: ',d:mtt declaring war with Mexico. . later on about annexing Texas, ai d t ; lesidenf ial elect ions’turned on 1h issues. Now we have got the tariff a tho currency, and party lines are v much unsettled. Dut, ns the preae: said: “Even this will pass away f icorgia is to he tJie forum of the gV (Tlscussifvn and the j;eo]»le are to be t judges. I am glad that it will her, .-o soon.' Let tho jn-ople hear and L make choice. It is no new thing; i. «I(|, and the people have been read I about it for three years, and alnic everybody is ready for the vote. I ! ’ the w ay of the people having a voic the .choice of a senator. Why n What is the difference between a a tor and a representative ?The old-t 1 heoryxVas that the senators represtni the states and the representatives L people, A hundrecLyears ago there \ . scu-ething in that, but there is r,< ing 1 -now. In my opinion the jh . diould elect the senators just like t eo the. governor and all other o”:e And the next best thing would l • abolish tiie senate. It was intend d he an assembly of old men—coum -. i in wisdom, and who would protect rights of the states, and a small r, -had as much power as a large one. 1: •that is a thing, of the past. Sir 'rights have gone into a state of inn lions desuetude, and money has i 1o,.do with a senator's fitness than ; or .wisdom. There is no good rea why Khode Island should have as n.u Then the storm broke loose. l-Aerv'- i ,mver as -Texas or Pennsylvania. Ihing that goes uj» must eanie.dvwn.' The widder, she sereained. She fainVcil. She fell dowh 'in it. Then the Logan I >oys come in to 1 h a game. They saw t h- deacon. IJe had lost his nerve aniLw a ; '.umiiin the wind for the horse rack. - ncy went out nftf-r him. Tlwv caught Wm, No, wo didn’t have 'no first-clns'- uiieral pursuant to adjournment.,Hut when them Logan boys got through ■ ith Deacon Joiner and left him out here in the big road, nje hfrd TUeV and Vndy had to hook up aone-hdrse Avagoii ml go ond pick him uj), tender lil:c and rentle and hattl him back home. The vidder she has now went and gqt a warrant out against Deaeon Joiner for assault with intent to murder, /fnd he deacon says, by *'dl that’s good and bad. if he ever lives,to git up from there he will he forever done with atleaat two men and all the women in creation. Kurus Sanders. THE “RAILROAD MAN.” Sam Him for His Jones Likes Muscle an'd’IIic Heart ed. I wouldn’t bet on its success, w e w ere not very sanguine the last i.e. The populists w ill be in the ffjbrLt ;ty strong, and there is no telling i !i way the eat is going to iiirijp.^ parties are bidding for their vote, ' une wise men predict that there > he no election, by the people*,* but" Tin ley and his southern friends are nine and jubilant. One of '‘lieu, a speech in our town ond said. • . . h uplifted hand, “that McKinley. • - w cej) the deck of the old ship . ■ like Napoleon Bonaparte swept . Id at the brittle of 'Waterloo.'” 1 all the colored brethren shouted n.’ DUt, if We have'got to take p . Fu-an', I believe 1 had rather risk i-Kinley than.any of them. Ile^hps ver ,abused the south maliciously nor .!’.'ruautly, and that is my test o'f a r roadurs* »ii> lA-ylipss, Jpjic iikiua clonients Much Meaning In a Casu:l Espreaalon rniftt'e* KclatlrfaW-f- High Aioralft'of. the Men as . ,, a Ulus-.. • J am a railroad man, he is a railroad iiiJm” f i his little pb.'iase is fatniliar to '(-veryTiddy, 'fiTd taurn'is never applied inis Tf.h'rlur-w iry in afiothereafling. We fO'tuiHayt Ptimirlawyei*tn«n. 1 am a doctor maiyl ‘am a carpenter mail, but 1 a'jii :! " rad road riari." ' What seeTujOfteiTto.be a careless sen tence, is a seiitence./till of point. Kail- in the country. No man is perfect who is morally iin|»-rfeet. No man ought to he truer to eonsciftnei and right than a railroad man. Thousands of lives are committed to tlil»ir keep ing daily. Whatever excesses and had habits shall make them tip-ffieient should be lopped off, and whatever con tributes to moral growth and develop ment should be fostered and practiced oiuttn xhu a Co :,iern man.- iitution. -Bill Arp, in Atlanta ELEPHANT WORKERS. :i Occupation That Unga^cfl the lluge Animal a: Rangoon. \\ e had seen many elephants during Indian journey, and iu.u variety of -ok men. -.Every nuin must, have a head, *a heart and'a-nuisele. If the railroad Tniin does not exceed in the first, he has ' lew j.eets*rhjthe.sJcon'tPnrtd third. A i)ig;lit u.rt and'a gcroil mnstle, they are IjouV-d togeflivr'as a class of men w ith very tender^^i. ..t'here are hardships, 1 herv -yi'^.diTjvgiys^ nnd.a horrible fate etnneK \rttto (me ot t heir fellows ever and u[:;:.tions, from the templech’pharits- ,..-ed in their solemn and sleepy - un/m, as lie fulls beneath the bumpers, to the huge and well.- enished. •-grqitwT-.ululer the wheels, irught in tReihricliinery 6f the engine. ..-i ssians ...ied animals, belonging to the :Jery batteries, at, (jaetta and. i diawttr, eu the Afghan frontier, and. . Listened to not a few tales of w.hat •y could do, sometimes, with just a - ;Je of jneredulity. . •’here are about a dozen elephants cm- d in the work of the yard, and all : i!h :o but one are malts. This may, .■I probably does, arise from the-fact the males are usually larger and surer than the female elephants, but. bring from the specimen'we saw, it ; -t be from any superiority of intel- ; on the jxirt of the female ani- The solitary female, worker, .ih- i, is a veritable nraid-of-all-Wor 1 urned by the fire cr scalded by the hot : ■■ I-. - The railread inaji never looksupon his .:;'..n,'jje.d eoyjra.de, but that he realizes . ‘ hat tjiis ; mayd>c :his,-fate. somexlay.and ■ims-the tcr.derc.st -fh-s are woven about .ve'ir lH-.'rtvtkV*'These-'very dangers end "* ardship-s bifid them to their w ives and ■ b> IheirblTddVen. - ' ‘• • '.’Vs t he ■engineer stands on the door- up an(l kisses hls'jwufe and little ones .:;;>oc1-hy. lie knows riot but .that is his lust .fiLi;ey.cll-iq his family. .There is a .Tcaderni»-it . which cannot be de scribed'. vAa 1h> returns from his trip to his-w ii'e'-fH:-d : Little' ones; the*fueling of : the vaid, and no kind"of work *' a «tne, again fi-dnTn darigerriusTrip. has' . • to come amiss t > her. At one * MiefnessV Th'’^ t<’nder may be «een holding a log up .eem's repoi|tcd ^p.pt' arid o er ere rites a -.w when at work, either end wiij-J* TV^cg-jOAC apd ten^lbrpwa^in t he honie ns oeeanion may require; at •••i'vV-.C- radru^.d raan., J.’re<|ije,nt sights' • ■ r : be is dragging the slabs rwuv ife and-lictleofientiWee,pingoaci t:W 1 be end of b<-r trunk, and pilir'r • rswngb-d isod-yoLth/ji-hnslkmd and fa- , in heaps with all the r(*giila.vi'T . s-e*!ffemlctffhNind^rtl)e . kill of tfie most n< nt-!;ntldcd workt • r :het' !s oT- h!k f traTnyintenRify-tlu^ lo>- at a third she is n-aMng a nhuk r£t r -?i « bcTieredhe rail-. u sawn board;. or^yccping.tY, fi; , ; ,e A ? j^; ? to ^ 10ir .^iinijU's 'of-’a.nycl^%^f.igcii.<5q earth. . * , .'.'rhcr.e.yiii.- u.jyeg )q ft alque ^ypeh 6# fhe i.ie w.iftb Vbb eoiYid* Rinnluff-the homo, • ;vd. tsabtug e.i(*'e.Wbt lie little ones.*.Thef very ♦U^jjdiisibHity qb WJ and. care J)'di-A'btiotV'to the IttxTrt of the j-fe. TbelfeA-y'tfvr- (ftfobfe#. devotion I . T.-tiy'e'' yyfo’ 1 aity^'liijrc 'i have w:t- /..Tt'Vy' lyy.t /ju-r*TIv a wu.y x:cp on the I ir.ih.y *»)/*<hp t xi/roj»:djiou^e .(ind in- the'.' s bo psf. otf T tii i fvjoo tjfoH'y.:-b nrtfwhcreeVe r x«m .sujkfva-tonp^es olie's >‘h<xiMv-rUgnefi fi-®m.rtito.ljtPtvrf, and i'-riT'arswe'rtwtea*^,': Thfe vail road man is i 1 -; from the mLjIbpiisefioorWhit: ..aitii: broom. -The meaning of tim • !►- f .) knock off work is not better ' wa to :-.'uy Avorkmer. bit fbe frlg-c •) to iJ'i'ibfd it is noer.i-'y’inatter ta* ;,. • her t<» do a ringlc t Funk’s'turn'’ .. t he signal has cneo Eaurid'd,. . , ■ I.-;-, once j)ilnp;d tp shore, v,dll. • 1-e word of command, if ,not.ot a-' ;• weight than about a ton and a . iie pi i;ted u]> by live animal’s tus 1 . thcTi griT^iK il with tnink-darefulK"' 1 . > 'ip tlyin ih? middle, anjl carried' ■vT e wlj-evc it is'AMiiifc.d. ArrivciT-' : e byap of fogs in the yard, he. will »|t ' . • .1 vtt.m! on ihc j ro.uun r.ut] Iht on 111? heap, and tbeiV’?pioocch’ TTqw:5i,]ij'^wp,v.,vnq5eie,| Iqvj'an hon- 11-e i -c t rivsti'n.atre Mre t -. push ‘ st t<ji!or '' I ’ !nyc11lt ‘ fearlj^f: ,'....1 adjust 'it 'With th^'point bfbir'^'^^'^t^Aheacane.cmWems of hon- - • - *-icrit't/ML'; J-tJaink raora'of uiuside thrin I •id'oV'Tnbney.'d ♦hiok'Wwrt’b of eflinraf-W ■ n)bre‘ of grit than ‘leplumt'K(ipiiuou i st ion. In ease of a lug M-!i : ,v hl i nhorn which m - r> • loo f , ! hriuvv for a single rbj !:i::.t, a. ;■ -I N eaflr/l'to his assistance,, r.i:d't 1 fr Potne of .tb» aLwalb earlK.belong to h\rgc'.ooin\)'ari^ ©f luc.r; but,,tuqahily, fwwie.prm the rougii-' i!t. : H!0«tq>r-ofiiue' / )andj most-, reckless ,.iIrvjIs,<lhafci-\w walkett thg eaH h. Li lle farter ekiss'atv-ffw- iw number. > amm.Ms proceed quickly Jo | R'k , j '2 • 1 . nrd I ^ebevva^ f dhnnlla^l 1 '.* ^ by thaextrcpic cruunud curry it.tq .- i(-<|uircd heap, where tjuty <Vpo -.itli the utmost eure, e\,itK\amii . it.criticiill.v toiec that it is ; rf.e- nrdT ftelievxi a I'd h ri rih ollK* gphEH n g few - <*rt ''feii'yt-rii-sTe’^b y-irlfrorttf fiien wx're eoitsii!-re(T d. vH-y reck'e.Ss, dissipated < ladi hf ,r.;cA • . .. r 1 in-line with the rest of t he k(a<-!■:. !•' • ; ami all-other nice | roe, is. ?. of :m tment (he point of the tuslc i the ii ui.-.entUsed. * it has been said <1:k1 an « !<-pl : : t can ) e\erything but speak, ; i >1. ir.di ,|. ereoflendisposed todouhl.i'. lu-'l:i-i re was even this exception. \Yh: 1- . r emotion one of there anima! f ' •ems ready to exprr" ie r.-i <1,, - w'li'ious are the modtilntiiis-. . ' tie?, and so ready their jy.uq athy u parent cpraprelieiisioi) of i-i .- ■ her, .that we could hanjl.v doul t t! ■ : impression that cleplmut-; < en: duo rather to our iruorarree then t . ir want of the power of wakiu* mselves understood. The rl.-]il,: i : \ ‘ry liable to sur.strokr. esp ,-inll - l-en working In the water, and < ven - : >ro ho is generally funiMi:c! with ■>- er for his head during the ! urp «/. • greatest heat. A good cloT'baet i such value that hia health is not t risked lightly, and, indeed, after .’ ::M* • . :;vJoonkee^r ant} .tiVf gambler r.:.d ,tli(i tn iekster.watehqd-foy pay day. -nd much sweat i^pncy of the railroad .man ii.ivt.-adof.^’Dirigrio Iris litfk' family u buy t he comforts that they s:o much i i .- l, went over the counter of the .r.Ioon, rivf i- the'tabid wf'the gambler i il into'tlie linnds of the devisee. But in this; Jut !er veaj;s fholfailroad YlM. C. A. -n ices in the railroad shops and the r.itiuKiiun'e the work'of the Sal- atioiV ArmY arid of ecn-.seerated men rd wnt»K-n’ witl» special reference to lioad u hi. has greatly changed the ::l eondifion of these brawny toil- le* . . .. *'<:•. - t V. . • ', >oiue of t|ie finest t'hristian elinrae- • rs ar.’- the yien who hold the throttle i 1 , or luaw) the coal into the fumaee, .kid tbit twbt the brake, rod, or punch In* ticket, or handle the baggage, or ,r>rk in Mie round houses and t.he shops. Dot tli< rt' nre a few railroad men yet, am Sony* t»*ay, who turn their Inud- hneil motley'into improjicr channel: Hgutiy, and, imlcrd, a r.er v, e lif 'att it ude of the railroad comjiatdes s.-en i-hat they could ( o. v.»- <-’ij-nnbi, the ot-gaui/i'd railroad ordei's jiopulation should settle it, then York should have 48 senators.. If i ritory should settle it, then T<- : hould have2,000 in proportion to Ki; Island’s two. But we don’t need - u-ri iipdy at all. One house is enough, ; there is no good reason in 84 men in ; senilte overriding 300 in the house. T constitution requires a senator to be years old; he should be 60. Then 1. would have more sense and less a hition. Well, I never voted for a senator nay life, and many a one has been fi! blistered through the legislature th' I would not have voted for and theT-;, pie would not have chosen. A shrev , ambitious man can play "parlez vm; vith 200 men, but he can’t do it w i .'I 0,000-—so let us vote this time. And now let the great battle for t. • next president come on. Thisisunu- • *f surprises, arid the democracy is i. | d< ad, nor its great (principles abai. • inclined to go -further. ■: : <1 -.t a well-trained elephantisabsolnt; - ■ invaluable for heavy labor in a eli te such as that in which he finds bk tr.ral home,—Harper's Weekly. Danslitom of Frcxldents. I’r-’sidents’ daughters are (juite i u-' .uusly ip evidence in Washington : now. Among those in atter.dane - • i.eeiit social functions in YY: riiii - n Mrs. Sartoris, Mrs. Stanley Brown (1 Mrs. McKee, daughters respecti\ - of Presidents Grant, Garfield am] :i risen, have been conspieu in-. 'I'-i - list of presidents’ daughters'in liington the in.me of A!rs. S.-qiplT liter of President Tyler, slnnild a-lded. Mrs. Semple.ia and has hi en •a nunilicr of yeaia an inmiite of t!n 'rise home, the ideal retreat for ag d- uen which Washington owes toil.* : i rosily of W. IV. Corcoran, win unde 1 and named it in uu-iiunx o r -i wife and daughter. Ill-heallh ai '' 'vniicing age have long prevni t -if ' s. Sein[»lc from biking part in son I riiviticK, but her miml is clear, l . •mory unimpaired, her iiit<-|l<ei ",Clous, her knowledge of the In- ry of the country deep .iml eompi. - i -he. It is not strange, Uien-foic, at this represviitatho of a p. ri I np gone by should not be of wm i o at different times hake lived in th kite house.—Wiuthington Letter. Over 16,000 patents hank been i - tied for the various kinds of electrical appliances. f tough ■..Yards the “iT'inor tiaffie” has doia j.iieli m turn,the money of the railroad wn fuun t uloon intu-the Uoine. •Tle-iie in*' n niy teniptations for the ; druid men. Ui drink. . Less of sleep, regular hours, expoKuiH: to min and - ild,' all rail for the glass. Kail road men f*<» in groujis. There are vtlmis'of linfidHou the tr-'ifks. ou th" :ain and In the shops. They go in .ith* groups apd cirqles, and as these (tie cireh*. meet. Iierc;iiul there, there great f* niptation* to gather at useinent hall", stilnoiJw rind giunblin," Ides. Ab- cnee frniil home, late liour>, ml jokial gioupK, all offer’teniptati.ui: • dissipal lotu i . i , i-Vw men hake the responsibility of iFnfitd til* n. Tin-drh lng'of spikes on • track, tin- m©l.ii:g nf wheels, JL.* • ling of the orkb ri* often eaiise bio death, We ilitl’U'l uur likes to tlx* h'lity, of.til** n.ie liinisi, the trail. .. tiids, tJie ciigiui-i’i' the <'«m(l net or and ho'crew. I'helf Udellfy inoaiiN *nir f.-, their* llegleet liieuiiH onr death, 'no making if the etir kvln-el, t|ie tlrik* of the spike, the juillliig of th'* filth', the rending <•( an order, iho iiilitig of a u i si-age has alkwi} s / enied . ^l*«' ii -uei «:d k\ oi k. \ ii.un kkiil) a strong (inn and u ehsij* id and a good heart ha* every bnsi* geiiiiine mntUu- »l. if -« moral qiuiHtk there. Mhom-k- r the rndroad iimui f our* eoimti > ahall show up hhUhI l | dilies equal to tlu-ir tuiiselea, piei\” ''{■Ml t© t^i.-lr intelligence, then they II o.Utniuk almost uny elusa of uuui otber classes demand cool hcaffr and un- impeaeliable characters. The falhiey has been exploded tiiat railroad men cannot be as good as any ekiss of nu n. There are many dekotedly-qiiou.s eou- duetors, engineers, firenien.'brakenu n, etc., and their number is -increasing every day. Drunkenness has well-nigh been relegated to the past; ^wearing and gambling and im purify^ u giving w ay to the nobler, better stafVftf things, and railroad men now qroinf^kk ith be coming pride to this improve® state of things. Let the improvement keep on. . R.ui IS .Jones. THE LAW.* -.4 And Those Who I’rofoMlonulI^ NIako a Praetlcc of the Same. How difficult is the Ittw l -'-^dne w ho knows the. law must know}’how to choose-from its armories appear to .pierce its own armor, or a hji^ld proof against its spears. The is long, and hath no end; it is uneef^iin unto dumbness; often silent oi *tunb ; guoiu; for the future, yet dema»dio|Mrigorous obsenance of the past. It^ls subtle to include the craft of the ngt 5 ^: sordid, Tierce, and unjust, bound bw.the pre cedents of half-savage times, yet hold ing latent within itself all the better ment times to come. How difficult is ■the law! •■/‘.t* Strangely enough, the practice of the legal profession is often- illegal. I have known two or three lawyers w ho succeeded in freeing their clients an;! setting them unbound in the. prim rose, paths of liberty while they tliYiri.seIves were detained to walk the thorny paths of bribery and subornation. ' As a class lawyers are nsbfilly vain, being in this respect as vain men in other professions, and approximat ing to editors and drummers. . “The law,” say the lawyers^.“sharp ens thejxTeeptJons.cult ivato^.the judg ment and opens the mind to wsfL on ami argument." The grocers speak equally highly of the-grocery business. They c^iim that Selling a codfish puts thenfi,ahead of their generation, and that'flfjsj/osiiig •if a crate of mildewed raspberries after four o’clock Saturday aftr rriofjn leaves them without companions in intel lectual converse. T-. It is a pet sophistry of lawyers that - they are enabled by their specinl 1 rain ing to look upon bot.ii sides' (ft a que - ’ fiun. When lawyers fall to tc'jliug you of their unbiased minds, you w ill have to ask them to go slow ly on account of Uio'^r&efocTnent. But, in fact, lawyers see pnjrit on only oijc sidy, a^d that is their own side. That Hn-ir side de serves the verdict they have an al.-o- liite belief. It is true that in address ing judge-or jury they eitff'foy such •inttgnifieent rhetoric that yoti think their belief is affected and . assum' d, but it is in fact real. K).;erv lawyer Thinks he should win, if not oa-Jris ease, tjlien on his almost sinfully ingenious way of presenting it. li lt is taid that the p.ursuit-lit the hiw makes a fair man, but fairnessjlaw ami lawyers think little of. • So little, in deed, that if a lawyer shorihLattempt •to introduce evidence to show the' righteorisness, and even holhies . of Iris cause, opposing counsel would im mediately object to it .as trifling and immaterial. The judge would u: tain them, saying: “It is not pertinent.” ‘T understand that, your honor,” the ! hopeless lawyer might say. “I wish to throw in the righteousness of my ease •merely as a makeweight.” "That will not do,” the judgT would sternly reply. “I cannot listen to ex traneous matters. If you have r.o crafty evasion of the law or ingenious • subterfuge to bring forward,'you v HI he adjudged in contempt for pretend ing to occupy the time of this court.”— Harper’s Weekly. The Mountaineer's Hear Tonr.i. “I was driving along a road in the mountains of western North Carolina a sliort time ago,” said P. D. Mayfield, a man of St. Louis, “when 1 ’heard a wagon coming around a bend; in the road: My horses shied, thflfrbegnn to tremble, luring evidently in the m.osi abject terror. I could not make tliem move .a foot, and when the approach ing- team came into sight I saw the ica- son, and, getting out of the buggy, Micewded in quieting my horses, so a s to allow the strange team room to pass, iilC the driver of the brutes ah^an i i' calling: ‘They won’t - hurt .. nothin’, stranger; don’t be sheared.’,. He was driving a team of full-grown- black Im-iits, and they were making about as fast time as a yoke of oxeiriwould. They were hitched to a wagon loaded with logs. The ppper part of the wagon was like any other, but the w heels werv small and heavy, evidently the work of a local blacksmith. The bears i>aid no attention to me or to my learn and walked along leisurely, draw ing their load seemingly without ef fort.”—-Washing-ton Star. Illacoverj of Ilians Ktc-Iilna^ The art of etching from glass was discovered by a Nuremberg glass cut ler. By accident a few drops of aqua fort is fell upon Iris s|H‘etaeless He no ticed that they became corroded, and softened wlu-re: the acrid hrid touched. That was hint enough. He drew fig ures upon glass w ith varnish, i corroding fluid, then cut away tho glass around the drawing. When the (ariiish was removed, tiie figures a;.- Ix-an-ri niised ii|M>n a dark ground.— Ih'trolt Free Press. All LlHM'lt. “I say, Sniggs, I don’t see you out on your w heel mi much since you were mar ried. When did you begin to taper off ?” ‘‘Win'll my wife learned to ride.”—• I’.i'fhfkl. It n I if**